bachelorhood
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5.5
- noun
- /ˈbæʧəlˌhʊd/
:
soltería
- After years of enjoying his bachelorhood, he finally decided it was time to settle down.
- the last day of bachelorhood
- giving up my bachelorhood
Examples
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Mycroft Holmes preferred to live out an eccentric bachelorhood circumscribed by the walls of his club, beyond whose confines he was rarely known to venture.
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He was in his early fifties by then, and we had all given up hope for an end to his bachelorhood.
Fiction book (2000) -
Just introduce me to the right girl, Ed, and I can end my bachelorhood right here.
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In the forty years of Marquette's bachelorhood, he had never given much thought to a wife.
Fiction book (1993) -
Thus began a four-year period of Reagan bachelorhood.
Blog text (14) -
He had quite a long period of bachelorhood where he couldn't seem to settle down and suddenly this beautiful young girl came into his life.
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I'm convinced I'll never have enough interest in any one woman... that I'd be willing to give up the joys of bachelorhood.
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Bachelorhood suited Yehiel well.
Fiction book (1994) -
Elwyn was a prime example of an evolutionary dead end: a fifty-year-old lump bundled in flannel, doomed to eternal bachelorhood.
Fiction book (1999) -
He often reminisced about his carefree bachelorhood while planning his upcoming wedding.
Synonyms
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3.7
Not being married or in a romantic relationship
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5.1
Not being married or having a romantic partner
The state of not having a husband or wife
Antonyms
How Single
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bachelorhood comes from bachelor, which originally meant a young man not yet part of a household or family, and the ending -hood, which means 'state', as in childhood. So bachelorhood is simply the 'state of being an unmarried man'.